Re: living without fridge or food preparation

Paul Edwards wrote:

"Carol" <cshenk@virginia-beach.com> wrote in message
news:vsc0g8$22630$1@dont-email.me...
 

Paul, look up Jackery units, minimum the 500w with the panels.
Portable but will cover laptop and charging cell phones.

 
Hi Carol.
 
Thanks for your reply, but that's not the direction I am
trying to go with minimalism. This is what I have:
 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09H6GGK55
 
and it will fit in my backpack.
 
I am trying to organize things so that I can travel with just
a backpack.
 
While other people may attempt to "live off the land" by
hunting animals or whatever, as a computer programmer
I am trying to "live off the Sun".
 
I don't know if you're familiar with MSDOS, but I spent
a lot of effort to reproduce the equivalent of that on a
Smartphone. You can see it here:
 
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cod5.pdos_pdandro&hl=en-US

 
(Robert is another person involved)
 
So I am attempting to adjust my "lifestyle" to conform to
the solar in my backpack, rather than organizing sufficient
solar to cater to my lifestyle.
 
You can add an external keyboard to a smartphone/tablet
so that you can touchtype.
 
While in the Philippines I spent 1-2 months living purely
off solar for my computing. But I had a 100W solar at the
time - portable via hand-carry, not backpack. And I used
an ARM-based laptop, the Pinebook Pro:
 
https://pine64.com/
 
with screen brightness turned way down. I had the brightness
very low on my smartphone too. And I can do other things
like restrict my computing to night time if necessary.
 
But I may be able to achieve the same thing with x64 which
has significant advantages for me. I have to run experiments.
 
Thanks for the pemmican suggestion too.
 
BFN. Paul.

Good luck!  What's the plan for the laptop?  Trying to fill a powerbank
of any size at 40w will be painful.